[IAEP] Project Gutenberg, etc.

[James Simmons]

Edward,

I'm a little puzzled by this statement:

"Presumably we can create a library of pretagged documents for our 
students."

I would guess you're referring to some variation of the Unified Bundles 
idea, and these bundles would have tags in them.  Fine with me, but who 
is creating this library?  Is it Sugar Labs?  Do individual schools have 
local etext libraries?  There are already several good repositories of 
free etexts available, covering many languages.  Would we create yet 
another one?

The way I would do it would be similar to the way my public library did 
it.  Your first card only lets you check out books from the kid's 
section.  This would be like a school's local etext library, where the 
teachers select and bundle texts they consider suitable for the younger 
readers.  (Maybe the older students help with the bundling).   In Junior 
High they put a special stamp on your kid's card that let you into the 
adult section, but you were only allowed to check out books from certain 
sections.  Then in High School you got a grown up card, which was good 
for everything except the books in a locked case.  This second and third 
tier I would consider to be Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, etc. 
where the kid is hunting for his own books and has to either bundle them 
himself or use Activities that don't require bundling.

James Simmons


Edward Cherlin wrote:
> It only took me a few minutes on Ubuntu, but then I had almost all of
> the Python dependencies previously installed to support other
> packages. For me the time consuming part was tagging more than a
> thousand files. But it's worth it, because now I don't have to
> remember where in the filesystem I put something. Presumably we can
> create a library of pretagged documents for our students.
>